The Sun. — London, England, 1864-01-21 00:00:00

La , " „ g el for 1," ICONEY MARKET AND COMAItItCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. in _ eln the general discount market there is moderate 25 ettl4 nd for mone b y but the sulies not being o: lludant, 8 per , pp cent. is r equ i re d f or t h e negot i a ti on i'at class three months' bills. , he City of Manchester has arrived from New '4,e.r,sit Wi th £145,800, an d the Hammon i a w i t h #.00,595„ The .sceneY created i n th e di rec t ora t e o f th e , d the English and F oreign Library C om p an y, occasioned tle death o f the lamented Mr, Thackeray, has ell fi lled up by t h e distinguished Dean of Chiches ter,,The directo ra t e has been further strengthened bathe addition of the names of Sir R. I. Murchison, i:i4 w e ed e i ght Fier:. Viscount Bury, M.P. We were the -() the office this day that three parts of stlbeaPitEtl stock of this company have already been cloacaibed fer, and that the application share list oe Wednesday the 3d of February. l e „, he ha lf yearly report of the Scottish Australian taste' eettneet Company, to be presented on the 29th 81 1 ,,,, 8t atee the net profit to have been £ 16,050, t e ,; 4l g at increase of £1,523 on that of the cor tat:ending six months of 1862. A dividend at th e leaving 10 Per cent, per annum is recommende d, wi l l i e ,g 426 1 to be carried to the reserved fund, Ther e will then amount to £ 7 , 343 - do n ell w as a meeting of the directors of the Lon lett a nd P rov i ncial Marine Insurance Company th e elltlYl W hen it was resolved to recommen d to f or eaarehol dere at th e general meet i ng a di v id en d et the ha lf -Year en di ng D ec. 31 l ast, a t t h e ra t e 4, Per cent per annum. t oiu ; n a meeti ng Bank of of the proprietors of the t s. th e , wn , held this day, a dividend and bonus, tog e -444 at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum, was d that £ l p agreed to, and it was recommended The be carried to the reserve fund. to 4 1144 Week's railway receipts, ascertained up ~ tl aY, are, in round figures, as under 4 : reat vir eo,. ~,] 8, 6 1 _ _1863. i 37 £50,242 ot.hw,„_ll:l 00 000000000000000000000 , _; 6 1 : 965 78,032 ptli-w e ltrn 000 0 tl/4 t lght o4 rtt r°1444 .......... „ Ith-t0.4;.:2 ........................... 17,753 17,707 La it is,/941-uterl; ............... Itirare an d Iszo, t ana," Y orkshire .. km. -t a , u _Fte r . 5,076 6,090 34,250 31,120 Nortl l i le b stat, 74; .. Great s cathe t 'Qeld and Lincoln 15,676 13,849 11,869 11,006 _ Theo ° ° ,, lilh ert h, s. W estern . Oflreland 7,289 7,324 rah, with those of the same _ of , compared exceptions, 61 Perioda f. b 48 t Year, are, with one or two except .4 show, -74rahle character. The Great Western s Of £ 8 94,11 jeerease of £ 3,895; the North Western, . d. lalid: ; 3 . ,; the South Western, of £544 ; the Mid eat eat ° T v . - '") 27 2 ; the South Eastern, of £546 ; the lork s) : ° rthero, of £4,805 ; the Lancashire and f 1, 43,12-Rite, of £3,130; the North Eastern, o u ti,s2 7 - ' the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, o f e 4 141 d° ' 5114 t he North B r iti s h, of £ 863. On the a , 't ti4,:',". Bri ghton, however, there is a decrease 04 the Qr u° ;on th e Bristol and Exeter, of £2O; an d 'i 43,5 . e at South ern and Western of Ireland, of Bet; At p a • Two O'CLOCK. tele itt till, this day, according to Mr. Reuter's aSe, 4 1 , 1 / 1 1 the French Three per Cents. were 66f. i <Le o Th e ~, Y• si holde tY-third half•yearly meeting of share tadkr4 Clf t he London Joint-Stock Bank was h held usual ' t lividL,, The report, which announced t 1 /itl u i at the rate of 121 per cent. per t h e usual e artie lt d b°4 as of Bs. per share, was unani a mously 1, i (l l l: 4 et i tt a : ll it y e toff .01r per cent. has taken place sfl to in -day ns i e n .. s e B t t' . the English Funds, eh , to ram : (31 Purchases to close " Bear fe e l in 18a Profits after the recen t dec line. A better 1 ' i acc y ounts, and , t ' and tigie:l2l° Prevails regarding Cont inental politics, goid 'ki ll be ' ill 4 a impression that the out fl ow of 13 3' the Ill il kt eriaily checked by the measure adopted : 9 4 4 . , 411 k ef England. Consols for mon T ey hr a e r e e s 44 a -- ,l "'L 901 1 for the account. The New Bills et 4r510-e'lleed Aufluities are 90! t ; EKchequer of 41°4 B. and 113, di e owing to the increased va lu e A t l ' and 4, 1 ; : are 1041 105 i. - , , Leold ed . Ati per Cents. ".. t° ' I E Ma r i 11 " has also taken place in the Foreign " per e e -- , (4 ' b'it business is not active. 46 1 . 1 ; 1\1 14'. . ; ) Ise ' 2 , are 661 67 ; do. Con T s e o r li k d i e i s s h , BPaaiah Passive eze an 331; Greek, 221; Coupons, 10 1. ; and th 3 ll i ditto Certificates, 13 1 s , in 0 6 1 Confederate Lo;an42 44. ttlieellurnee(ilet:itilte7aby Share Market the dealings h ave .d nt prices have generally exhib ite d ehereePtwatd Izoveraent, owing to the favoura ble .. tip4l rof the traffic: receipts on most of the prin kiste re in i , eB ' IVorth So uth .- Eastern (Berwick), ProredZrighton, and Great Eastern have nn a lork ab " B . ; Great Western, and Lancashire an - n , , are, ig_ Northern este r "., G reat N A Stook, North ' l4 ss. li 411 d Midland, £1 ; and Metropolitan, B ank t4 it 1. 4 ,, a ti Misc ellaneous Shares continue in 14,'1.2re : et ' and, in some i nstances, show rather —ieB a. London and W estm i nster real i se 4 .1., n iNt. ‘-'entract Corporation are quoted 21 i ettiti 4 1 0 Italian B an k, 7- 1 It; Rive r L an d pr een, ell i i prem.; and Adriatic. Steam, li to 2 3 LioVi'a'lTlBll FUNDS--CLOSING PRICES. "1' toe )011 r'r PuNus bit tl t. c o 1 • 901 a 1 %tit 40, 480 8 Net, r Ceilt .b . lllll t Peb.l 9Ol a 1 I si _ 3 per ,-q•ednced ........ 1 ,4* ai ,',,,e11t. ..... . t ......... 801 1t a _ 6 Iv a i Per Cent. Jan 1189 . 4 . .. Per Per c e • . . _ dr,„ eat , _ l it. -Annuities .6-I,ltitieti:3'•unr, uities, Jan. 1873 .. Ipto for 3 `,' Yrs, expire sth J an., 1880.. )Ikelit (bed ~Yre, expire sth April, 1885. „elti er i„,.'3,,ea Telegraph), Aug. 008. &int o 'nits, £l,OOO, 21 & 3 per Cent l2 dis 14 10 dis t 4 „ i llitt e £5OO -'444:441 andstk4,l4oioper c t 4 ., 200 1'„la g,„_,Cio•vm t ,,,, e y: 235 6 "itt,cA• 10i :VENT SECluatißtillni; b it to Per Cent., April 1874 to 6 ',at .... ...... • • ~ Pe r Cent, iii 1........ July, 1870 B r ~,,,, - r 010 : ,, tiiiiitu A --"/X FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES. — itt o - Der e ...... b. , is,,, eu, .......... Itt ° 4/ " 41 4 1859 .. — Der n 87 b• t b y s'elll., 1 852-58-60 bi l l t o B eli t° 1863 thpois i P, 1863 4,- 5 - d 2/ 2 dis h,kl ~Yrbts e Per ' Cent '.1 al --,th, 6 . , er Q 11, —li ettt .. 102 14 1;, 40t _p et ~,, ......... ___ •.. IN Oo N9r ,'ent .. typti4.,-tNZ°llsolidated, 1 per Cent — 4r_ D 47 Pe 441 Land Warrant 101 100 a eek ° ,i e ecol l t d .ent 1001 b itt o P e r Ce,,,''olls bit, o 4%04:4'4 1 821-6, ex-Coupons.. i— ll i 2 la 2 übitt o g po;, t • .....exi o <ac e . ° -8 ... 10 9 bit 44 a De llat . _ ko, !(:. Ac e r eent .ti Ilith / c olllt .... 34A 5 4/ oa fro, ( I. _ bap tzi., . ............... •—• bitt o r aaki a . 4 ' 6 Per Cent b it , 2 per•:, ...................... —b• '"Dor cent 'llocitt° 1 4 4 _ •.. • ..... . _ 41,01314a11,„1‘r4ri'ante.(H.e ........ _ b: ' O , 136 i Per Cent Ex 25f p itt o s . . .) , 44 . erip ~,,,..,. ......... I vl rtti a e (4l ° 4 ) 442 88. 3d. paid — Pm 1 .1 . t t0 4 P '' Cent. 'ltt o ec onnt 1114 4, Per l ent ....... _ 1 o„ 4 ° Alcceal, 1862 i bitt,7: 44 B per • d C ent., ' "Itt o A ktol lut 8 t., 1853 b it 3 Der c .............. tit, t ° A ell •Ilb58, '7, '9, '6O, 62;3 ea.it,4 6 tll '2 ll ll r t 'go ii t,':, Cent., igii, £ Dittoilk, rcent 18 50 ...... _ b. p , 860 ia It t o 6 r Cent., 1859 ......... P t il i t i ,°4 3 P l ' ) ' e r r C e n t, 1862 b i '0 Aeceetavjur bit tt o l iew I) ittb3oket°lint"err°(l • N_ b tu() paaisive --- otti:11. p as s i ve '• , . )is. n ert uT : . , 331 a 8 4A (1 , 4 kc z ,,,;,,l . uoup not funded .____ •tu r i?att, ,,,~. isli el l 6 pti.2,-,,,uent. .. . b it t t ° ,, R 4 eco r u n T it • 1864, ~itt .. Per ee .. : - bi t 4 A , e,,,, n , t • isbB ~ b t , Rao !) In Zltt. 1.0 6 ~_ ncla " 5 A l el (le llt• it.,Z ~,,, tto t 1%01111! 6 a 1 fiztioi 3 b e 1102,18 bitt ° o . f\,•ec4, 3, ' t .... ra• b itto o4Deer c,et1i..,.1.86.4. b t , bi:Ile°111(Its ......................... ..... bi t l2i per ~, On the above payable in London. '-ttll a to 4 p er 6 l t, Ex. 12 Gull. ....... b itt., ll l 5 p er eerit. Certificates .. ...... ''. Ac e t a., 1861, Ex. 2, ••cancs.. antio. ,, Coi lt •is •• • ...... ..:_. , ..... 671 a D itto 4 14 Ro il TIIItE O'CLOCK„ aunt ... 1.1 1 i , a, .................. 90 a ~.....„.. .. • ...... I ° I. 4 SHARE MARKETS,--This day, ORDINARY SHARES AND STOC&S. Closing Business Share,' Railway& P aid ' Price. done. [4. Bir., Wol., and Str. Val. [ Blythe and Tyne. .0 Rost.,Sleat,andMid.Co it Bristol and Exeter it Caledonian ,0 Cork and Bandon [0 Cornwall O Do A 2..ets no div [0 Do. B till e P c *P an ' ha ' been paid to B. , 10 Dublin & Belfast June. [5 Dun., Per th,& Ab. June. it Edinburgh & Glasgow. it Wasg. and S. Western. it Great Eastern, Ord. stk it Ditto A ;stock it Ditto East Anglian st it GreatNorthof Scotland it Great Northern st Do A stock et Do B do at Gt. S. aril W. of Irelanu st Great Western st Do Str Val gua. stock at Lancashire & Yorkshire at London and Blaokwall at Lon., Bright.,& S. Coast st Lon., Chat., and Dover st Lon. & Norill Western at Lon. & Ser.th Western et Man., Shef., & Lincoln. 50 Maryport and Carlisle. 12i Do 4 she.res... st Metropolitan • t Midland 1.4.0 Do New . at Do Birming. & Derby 50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland 25 Do. shares 26 Mid Kent ... 10 Do Cray Line at North British at Edin., Perth, & Dundee at Nth. Eastern—Berwicl‘ 25 Do, G.N.E. purchase at Do Leeds at Do York at Do Car1i51e......•• • • at North London 10 Do New P. 16.4 North Staffordshire 10 N. and S. W. Junction. st Scottish Central at Scot. N. E., Aber. stock at Do Soot. Mid. stock 10 Shrews. and Welohpool st Shropshire Union at South Devon ... at South Eastern at ;South Wales at S. York. and River Dun 20 Staines,Wok.,andWok. 26 Stockton & Darlington 8 Si - - Si 8i 84 P 6 128/ 1211 7 74 25 Do 25 Do New, 1850 st Taff Vale.. ..... •• • 10 Do B 10 Do C 50 Ulster 25 Do .10 Do It Vale of Neat it Victoria sta. and Pim it Waterford A; Kilkenny it West Cornwall it W. Hartlepool Har.&ll it West Midland —Oxford it Do Newport It Do Hereford' 107 401 127 133 i Vt 4 97 654 BRITISH r Railways ktlantic & St Lawrenec - - Bom.,Barodatz.Cent Ina Gu. 5 per cent... !O Do. New . • .• :0 Do. E. Shares... :04 Buffalo and LiMeliuron LO Do. Preference )0 I 5 Buffalo,BrantAGodriel. p. ot. bds. Aug. 1, 1872 )0 Do. do. July 1, 187 _ . 00 Do. do. June 1, 1b74 st Clcutto-NS.Eastn. Tit st Cape'fown te Dock Scrii ;ock East'. Bengal gu....6 p. I:ast Indian. gu. 5 p. c. Do. do. G Ext..... ) Do. do. H do. .. lc Grand Trunk of Canada ) Do. Ist Pret. Bonds.. 00 Do. do. deferred...... 00 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds.. 00 Do. do. deferred...... 00 Do. 3d Pref. stock 00 Do. do. deferred...... 00 Do. 4th Pref. stock... 00 Do. do. deferred...... ook Gt.lndiaPentn.gua. s p.o 20 Do. New gua. 5 p. 0... 20 Do. January, 1862 .. ,00k Gt. South.of India (Lim guaranteed 5 per Dent. 20 i Gt. W. of Canada Shares 20 Do. New .. . ..... . Do. 6 p.o. '73 with't opt.' K) Do. 64 p. o. do. '77-8.... ,0 Indian Branch Limited ok Madras. guar., 5 p. o. ►ck Do. Op. 0. EXteileioo )ck Do, 44 do .• •• —• • :0 Do. Fifth Extension. )ck sielb•Corp. 6p. o. Buds. io 51e1h. & Hobson's Bay. )0 Do. 7p. C. Mortg. Bds. 10 Newßr =sw - 1a Canda Class & and B. N. itl.C'das po Ist pt bds .ock Soinde ........ ock Do. Delhi to Do. do at Do. Punjaub .... Do. Do. ........ • r Irk Do. Indus. St. Flo.) COLONIAL GOVER can.Uov. e p.c.J a 6LJ 1877-81 Do. 6 p. c Feb. & Aug Do. 6 p. c. Mar. & Sept. Do. t p. c. Jan.&July. Do. 5 Inscribed stock Cape G.llope, 60ct,1873 Do.Ap k O 1880 Do. 1890 Do. Jan. & July, 1891 Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6 P Mauritius 6 per cent Natal Gov. 6 per cent N.B.Gov. ep.ad a.,StJuly Do. 6p. c.Ap. & Oct. N. S.W. G ov. 5 p z., 180 t Do. 5 p. c.,18t1 to 187 E Do. d0.,1888 .3z upwds New Zealand 6 p cent. Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. c sterling, 1875 'Queensland Gcv. 6 p. c S. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up Via Gov. 6 p.c. Ja.&July Do. to e me. An.&oot,„ MENT SECURITIES. 101 103 103 105 ,03 105 bO 02 90 92 07 109 ,09 111 .10 112 08 110 110 112 04 108 !,8 110 [O2 104 gg 100 ggi 101 99& IGOi 107 109 103 105 109 11l 109 111 Ino in BRITISH MINES. 2 Cambrian Consol. Gold 1 f Od (..;111ford Amalgamated 38 89 Devon G. Con..,"lavist ) 1 575 685 East Bassett (Illop - ,an) 30 674 70 1 East Clogau Gold Ltd 52. Id par d East Caradon ...... 1.14.6 27 28 East Care Brea... 3.4.0 7 71 E. WlRussel (Tavistk.) 8.9.0 5 04 Gam.&St.Aubyn(Gwen., 581 10 12 41 45 Great South Tolgus 17s 41 (1. Wheal Vor (lielston) 40 15 17 141 Grenville .. Elend's-Foot Hingston Downs 28.6 --Lady Bertha , . 4 8 . . 1 1 8 2 . 0 387 3539 I i Margaret (Uny Lelant , 94 15 17 11arke Valley 4.3.0 61 61 4 Nlyndy Iron Ore (Lim ) 2/ 14 1 d New Setun l9l 80 90 -- North Downs ......... N.Wh'i Basset (111o4au, 3.1.0 24 3 North Wheal Crotty Par Consols (St. Blaze),) -- - Providence(Uny Lelni ) 10.6.7 44 46 Southearadon(St.Cleer, 11 430 440 8. Carn Brea (Illogan) — ?.Wheal Fran. (Illogan, 18.18.9 675 621 Stray Park 30.17.6 28 30 5 Tamar Silv.,t Lead Min 44 4 1 rin Crort 9 19 20 West Basset (Illogan) l5 1 1 12 W Ct radon (Liskeard) 5 19 21 West Seton Wheal Basset (Illogan) 54 80 85 Wheal Buller ( Redruth) 5 20 25 Wheal liltty (U.Lelant) 2.0.6 -- - WhealLedcott ...... Wheal MaryAnngden ) 8 134 145 Wheal Seton 5Bl 150 160 1521 Wheal Treiawney (Lis.) 7 245 255 Wheal Union 3.17 ( 3 35 PREFERENCE SHARES. Great Eastern, E. Counties, Ext. No. 1, Ditto, 6 per cent. pf. st., 128 6 Great Northern, 5 per cent., 115 Great A orthern, 4i per cent., red. at 10 per cent. pm., 10. PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS. Great Eastern, 5 per cent. pf., 105 4} London, Chatham, &c., cent., Ext., B, 6 per cent.. 1041 Midland New £5 shares, 3/ • LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Great Eastern, E. Union 4 per cent. guaranteed, 86 Nottingham and Grantham R. & G, 97 FOREIGN RAILWAYS. Bahia and San Francisco (lira.) gua. 7 per cent., 18 Dutch Rhenish, 16i 17 Great Luxembourg, 111 Recite and San Francisco (lira.), gua. 7 per cent., 171 1 San Paulo (Ern.), gua. 7 per cent., Ditto (ad), 20 1 South Austrian and Lombardo Venetian, 201 FOREIG-NPUNES. Cape Copper, lira.. 71 1 Cobre Copper, 35 41 5 Mariquita, f Mont. Aurcos Brazil Gold Min. Co., 2f Valluazasca Gold, lira., 11 Worthing (limited), Yudanamutana of S. Australia (11m.). 3 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Alliance Bank of Lon Eton and Liverpool (lira.), 442 51 6 Ditto, new, 301 291 Anglo Austrian, 61 1 • Bank of Egypt, 26; 71 Bank of London. 172 3 If Bank of Otago, lira., 21 Bank of Wales, lira. In 13 Bank of New Zealand, 141 1 Colonial, 391 Consolidated Bank, lira., 10; 11 English, Scotch, and Australian Chartered, 23 , English and Swedish, lira., 41 Hindustan, China, and Japan (Um.), 32 Imperial Bank (lira.), 23 21 Imperial Ottoman, 171 1 17 2 1 Land Mortgage Bank of India, Ihn., 3; London and Brazilian slim.), 514 I London and County, 612 London Joint Stock, 39 London and South African, 264 Ditto, new, 261 6 d L on don an South Amerian. lim., 71 London and - Westm inster c , 841 4 hletrop. and Prov. Bank (limo, 221 3 Scinde, Punjaub, and Delhi (limo, 6E Ditto, new, 64 Union of .Australia, 53 2 Union of London, 411 21 2 MISCELLANEOUS. Commercial Union (Insurance), f 91 9 Crystal Palace, u2l Gen. Credit and Finance of London, lira., 62 2 1 Hudson's Bay. 171 1 International. Financial Society, lira., 102 2 ; London Finan3lal Association, lim., 26 5 * London General Omnibus Company, 22 t oriental Gas (lini.).: l l Peninsula and Oriental Steam, 781 9 Rio de Janeiro City Improvements, 262 Thames and Mersey Marine (Insurance),',lird., 71 7 I Universal Marine (Urn) insurance, 54 1 1021 2 104 i 100/ 991 100 X2B 1341, 436 93 (6 1101 111 72 73 104 105 43 44 107 1070 1011 1020 50 61 103 101 1281 129 i lt lip 97 99 521 63 25 t 6 103.4 104 59 60 901 90! 125 130 1 2 p 77 79 11 11i 124 126 93 45 98 100 63 64 33 3i £4l 05} 98 100 10 104 38 39 9; 100 ir. 70 8 p 168 160 6 64 21 3} p 84 87 170 175 22 25 ,SIONS. Closing Price. 60 G 2 103 105 4 1 P A 1 P 5i 5 k 8 9 1(2 104 101 103 106 107 10t 104 t P t 4P 20 21 73 75 59 61 66 68 53 66 60 62 40 Et 26 28 22 C 4 IC4 106 1t p t it P 102 104 96 10 11 10if1 1 93 95 ' 86'88 i 1n 106 )04 98 100 94 93 57 59 3 6 82 84 103 104 102 104 i 41 3 102 104 106 102 100 100 100 100 too 1101 t THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDA VENING, JANUARY 21, 1864. LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day). COURT OF QUEENkS BENCH. (Sitting in Banco, before the Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, and Justices Crompton, Blackburn, and Mellor.) THE QUEEN V. THE JUSTICES OF LEIGH.--TILE SUNDAY HAYMAKING CASE. In this case the Solicitor-General had obtained a rule to stow cause why the conviction of the magistrates of Leigh in relation to the celebrated case of haymaking on a Sunday should not be quashed, on the ground that a farmer did not come within the statute of Charles IL relating to the ob servance of the Sabbath. _ _ Mr. Mellish, Q.C., with Mr. Bayley now showed cause against the rule, and in support of the conviction. They contended that a farmer, and the persons labouring under him, came within the meaning of the statute, which pro hibited any tradesman, artificer and labourer, or any other person from pursuing their ordinary calling on the Sunday' The Solicitor-General having been briefly heard in reply, The Court was unanimous in their opinion that the con viction ougbt to be quashed, and that a farmer did not come within the meaning of the statute, or any person pur suing such occupation under him. Conviction quashed. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner Goulburn.) THE MOSELY GREEN COAL AND COKE COMPANY. This was a meeting for considering a proof of debt pre sented by Mr. Hancock, a stockbroker, for a sum of £4,000, monies advanced for and on account of the company ; and for which he held four bills of exchange signed by two of the directors, and sealed with the seal of the company. The case was adjourned till to-day, Mr. Hampton, solici tor, and a shareholder, having challenged the validity of the notes, and he also contended that Mr. Hancock's name ought to be put on the list of contributions for £251. Mr. J. Tucker (Greville, Tucker, and Co.), for the official liquidator, said the accounts had been investigated, and there did not appear any ground for opposing the proof. A further adjournment, however, was ordered that the ques tion as to shares might be argued at the same time. A petition was opened by Mr, Sorrell, of Mark lane, against William Collyer, of Oakley-street, Lambeth, smith and tool manufacturer. The bankrupt surrendered and received protection. (Before Mr. Commissioner lielroyd.) IN RE CAVE. This bankrupt was described as of Osborne-road, Bow, manager of a rope manufactory. Mr. Reed appeared for creditors, and questioned the bankrupt as to the disposal of his property, and also as to his means at the present time, and he said that he re ceived a salary of £2OO, and had a house to live in—he could not set aside half or one-third for his creditors, but offered £3O. Mr. Sorrell, Mark-lane, examined the bankrupt, to explain the circumstances under which the goods were taken by a creditor, and submitted that there was no ground for sup posing the bankrupt had kept back any property, and he was quite willing to sot aside any reasonable amount for the benefit of his creditors. His Honour orderod the discharge—the bankrupt to set aside £5O a year till the debts (L 262) were paid. IN RE 11. DATIS. This bankrupt was a woollen and silk agent, and this ras a meeting for last examination and discharge. The principal, almostthe whole of the liabilities, were on accom modation bills for Monk and Co., cotton, woollen, and silk spinner, at Huddersfield, who failed some time since for a large amount. Mr. Bazley, for the bankrupt, said the bill had been ac cepted for his employers, Monk and Co., who were sup-, posed to be the most extensive and opulent spinners in the West of England, but they failed, and left the bankrupt with the liabilities, but the bill holders would not be severe sufferers, as the estate of Monk and Co. would pay a large dividend. His Honour said that the Court must mark its sense of such a flagrant fraud of all such commercial property. Mr. Bazley said that the bankrupt was continually re ceiving goods from Monk and Co. His Honour said the mischief of such conduct was apparent, and the world was deceived. The order of dis charge must be suspended for six months, but with pro. tection. IN RE BA RNA.RD. This bankrupt was a baker at Leigh, Essex, and this was a meeting for last examination and discharge. The debts are about £362, assets £9O. Mr. Buchanan appeared for the bankrupt, and the order of discharge was granted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE —This Day. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. COMMITTAL OF THE FULL TERM FOR 1 BRUTAL ASSAULT ON A FEMALE.—Cornelius Maddigan, a rough looking fellow, was charged with violently assaulting, a female, named Caroline M'Millan. The prosecution was instituted by the society of which the Marquis of Townshend is president—the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, Duke-street, St. James's—and Mr. Edward Lewis, of Great Marlborough street, instructed by Mr. Albert, the agent of the society, prosecuted. When the case was first before the court the complain ant was unable to attend owing to the ill-usage she had re ceived, but a young man named Daniel Jebb, proved seeing the prisoner strike the complainant several times in a most violent manner, The case was then adjourned for the at- tendance of the female. On the case being resumed Mr. Lewis said he prosecuted on behalf of the Society for the Protection of Women and Children, who had felt it their duty to prosecute the pri soner, who had been guilty of one of those violent assaults which unfortunately were so frequent Caroline M'Millan, of 2, Aubery-court, said that on the 13th January, at 5 o'clock in the morning, she went into the Old Crown public-house, High-street, St. Giles's, to have a glass of ale. The prisoner asked her to treat him, but she refused, and she then felt his hand in her pocket, and seized it as he had taken out her money-4s. 6d. The prisoner then struck her several fearful blows in the face, and she was deluged in blood. She left the house to seek for a constable, when the prisoner knocked her down, and while on the ground kicked her. The blows given by the prisoner were so violent that four of her teeth were knocked out, and she was unable to appear last week. She was perfectly sober at the tima the prisoner attacked her, and saw him pass the money to some of his companions. Cornelius Tomkins, barman to Mr. Best, of the Crown, High-street, said the complainant came in and asked for a glass of ale, and the prisoner and another man came and stood by her side. Shortly after the complainant said she had been robbed, and the prisoner then struck her several times. The prisoner, whom ho knew as a bad character, had several bad companions about, and threatened him (witness) for interfering. Abbott, 59 F, on taking the prisoner into custody, saw the complainant was bleeding profusely, her lips being badly swollen. He knew the prisoner as an associate of thieves. Chappell, G division, stated that the prisoner was a thief. The prisoner, who said he was drunk at the time, was committed for six months, with hard labour. DISORDERLY CONDUCT IN THE HAYMARICET.—Benja min W. Blewitt, of 11, Taymouth-terrace, Commercial•. road East, medical student, and Julius Stauffer, of 12, Old Jewry Chambers, a student at the Veterinary College, Camden Town, were charged with being drunk and causing a crowd of persons to assemble in the Haymarket, and Blewitt was further charged with assaulting Sergeant Brad ley, 25 C. Sergeant Bradley proved seeing the defendants in the Haymarket surrounded by a crowd of persons. He re quested Stauffer to go away, when Blewitt struck him a blow in the face with his fiat. When he first went up Stauffer was pitching a dog into a cab, two persons being in the cab at the time. Both defendants were drunk at the time, and making a great noise by hallooing and shouting. Stauffer said he had had too much drink. Blewitt said he did not strike the sergeant, but he made an attempt to do so. The sergeant used such violence that ono of his shirt buttons came off. Mr, Yardley said that he did not consider that a proof of violence, and fined Stauffer 18s. or seven days, and Blewitt 30s. or fourteen days. THAMES. AN INCORRIGIBLE YOUNG TILIEF.—A poor woman, Elizabeth Loney, the wife of a labourer in the service of the General Steam Navigation Company, entered the wit ness box, sobbing loudly, and much affected, and at the same time her son, Richard Loney, a stubborn boy, aged 12} years, was arraigned in the dock, charged with robbing his parents. The mother of the prisoner said her son had repeatedly plundered her of money. She had lost a florin, and six pences and shillings. Yesterday morning she went out on an errand, leaving her purse, containing 35., under her pil low. On her return there were only 2s. in the purse. The prisoner was out all day and in bad company, and when he was found at night ho admitted stealing the shilling. Richard Loney, the father of the boy, gave a very bad account of him, and said he was anxious to save him. He had sent his son to school, and ho could read and write well. On being asked why he did not obtain employment for his son, ho said ho could not entrust hia anywhere. He pilfered everything he could lay his hands on. _ Mr. Partridge—How many children have you to main• tain ? Witness—Two, sir—this boy and a daughter, 20 years of age. He has continually robbed us. Ho has got into bad company. I don't know what to do with him. If he is left at home for a moment he steals something and runs away. I wish you to correct him. Mr. Partridge was of opinion that the parents of a boy were the best persons to correct and reform him. It was a sad case, indeed. He would remand the prisoner for a we ek, and on Thursday next decide what was to be done with him. A BENEFACTOR—BEYOND THE PLANTING QF AN ACORN.—The Earl of Seafield has planted on his Strathspey estate, during the past eight years, upwards of 10,000,000 plants, being at an average of two millions annually. itusinesedone I w, 60 Lo4} 31 1 4 31 LITERATURE. The Great Nile Discoverer. Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. By John Hanning S?eke. One Vol. pp. 658. Wm. Blackwood and Sons. _ . In this splendidly appointed volume Captain Speke has recounted with mealy simplicity and with per fect ingenuousness the precise manner in which he was enabled to accomplish his magnificent enter prise. As the Discoverer of The Source of the Nile—emphatically the Source of the Nile (for one of the Sources, the lesser of the two Sources, James Bruce has still the glory of having brought to light a century ago)—Captain J. H. Speke, aided by his friend and companion, Captain J. W. Grant, is now known to have achieved, in our own time, what had previously baffled the efforts repeatedly made towards its acquisition, alternately, sometimes even simultaneously, by the imperial rulers of the world, by the mightiest of conquerors, by the most daring of adventurers. It is recorded in ancient history how both Alexander the Great and Ptolemy Philadelphus respectively, strove to solve the very problem which has nevertheless remained inscrutable until the date of its actual solution, very recently, by the gallant English man, the author of this enthralling narrative. Equally, by Julius Cosier, as, before him, by Alex ander and by Ptolemy, the alluring, nay it should rather be said the absolutely captivating, project,was cherished. Lucan in melodious numbers avers this of CB3 tar, as Seneca subsequently, in his stately prose, recaunts the like of his infamous pupil, that later and degenerate Csar, the Emperor Nero. This heretofore apparently all but insoluble pro blem being, in effect, quite simply, the source whence flows northwards from the mountainous interior of the great African Continent, the mighty current of the River Nile, along a length of more than two thousand miles down to the point at which its sweet and sacred waters are mingled with those of the blue and tideless Mediterranean. Happily, the mystery surrounding the fountain -head of the Nile, is a mystery now no longer. Captains Speke and Grant have cleared it up, for once and for all, and they have done this not, observe, partially, but altogether. Several years ago Captain Speke may be said to have put his finger upon the spot upon the map at which he believed that the Source of the Nile would be discovered eventually. That spot being upon the borders of the Lake Victoria N'yanza— a lake situated in let. 2.50 S., at an elevation of 3,740 feet above the level of the sea, ninety miles in breadth, three hundred in length. There, in that half-fabulous region in the south-eastern division of Africa—among the shadows of what are for Europeans the untrodden Mountains of the Moon, mountains familiar at least by name to the reader of Locksley Hall, as sacred to the worship of Mumbo jumbo—there in Lake Victoria N'yanza, it was con fidently felt in 1857.8, by Captain Speke, that the Nile would eventually be found to take its rise. So confident was he of this, that his very confidence powerfully impressed even the least credulous of contemporary geographers. By ono of the commentators upon his lucubrations descriptive of the African regions he had even then traversed, it was remarked some time back with considerable emphasis, "If by subsequent travel this gallant explorer shall demonstrate the accuracy of this opinion [that is, that the source of the Nile would be discovered at last upon the borders of the Victoria N'yanza] to him must be awarded the honour of having solved the greatest geographical problem of ancient or modern tima." How entirely that if has been cleared away by Captain Speke, how far that gallant explorer has made good his claim to the honour awarded to him, thus conditionally; by anticipation, let his own unadorned statement of a fact—of the paramount fact—related in this lengthened Journal of his last African wanderings, at once quite clearly indicate without a word of circumlocution. The passage we are about to give is, beyond all doubt of it, the most important passage in the whole volume. It affords us, as through a loophole a glimpse of the goal won at lastl—that is, of the Source of the Nile as at length reached at— "THE STONES"—ON THE VICTORIA N . YANZ A. AT LAST, with a good push for it, crossing hills and thread ing huge grasses, as well as extensive village plantations lately devastated by elephants—they had eaten all that was eatable, and what would not serve for food they had destroyed with their trunks, not one plantain or, one hut being lef t entire—we arrived at the extreme end of the journey, the farthest point ever visited by the expedition en the same parallel of latitude as King Mtesa's palace, and just forty miles east of it. We were well rewarded; for the "Stones," as the Waganda call the Falls, was by far the most interesting sight I had seen in Africa. Everybody ran to see them at once, though the march had been long and fatiguing; and even my sketch-block was called into play. Though beau tiful, the scene was not exactly what I expected ; for the broad surface of the lake was shut out from view by a spur of hills, and the falls, about 12 feet deep, and 400 to 600 feet broad, were broken by rocks. Still it was a sight that attracted one to it for hours—the roar of the waters, the tho u sands of passenger-fish leaping at the falls with all their might, the Wasoga and Waganda fishermen coming out in boats and taking post on all the rocks with rod and hook, hippopotami and crocodiles lying sleepily on the water s the ferry at work above the falls, and cattle driven down to drink at the margin of the lake—made in all, with the pretty nature of the country--small hills, grassy-toppcd, with trees in the folds and gardens on the lower slopes—as interesting a picture as one could wish to see. The expedition had now performed its functions. [Note this.] I saw that old Father Nile, without any doubt, rises in the Victoria N'yanza, and, as 1 had foretold, that lake is the great source of the holy river which cradled the first expounder of our religious belief. I mourned, however, when I thought how much I had lost by the delays in the journey having deprived me of the pleasure of going to look at the there was, by the strait so often spoken of, with it and the the other lake wh ere t he Waganda went to get their s alt, nort h- eas t corner of the isi , ya nwa , to se e what connection and from which another river flowed to the north, making di "(Mop an island." but I felt I ought to be content with what I had been spared to accomplish ; for I had seen full half of the lake, and had information given me of the othe r half, by mea ns of which I knew all about the lake, as far, at least, as the chief objects of geographical importance were concerned. It was on the 28th of July, 1862, that Captain Speke arrived at this his long wished-for destina tion. A year and three-qu ar t ers previously he had set out upon his last and crowning expedition of discovery, bent upon verifying hi s confident as sertion, two or three years previously made , and already here adverted to—his unhesitatingly posi tive and explicit avowal that in the outlet of the Victoria Nyanza (Nyanza meaning, by the way, simply "pond") would sooner o r later be found the sour ce, the fountaiu:head, the mysterious rising of the River Nile. By his indomitable perseverance, his prediction of the result cer tain to be arrived at, he himself has happily been enabled to fulfil ! Accomplishing his feat a journey made on foot oonvelyr' however,adistance of by fully one fnoe thousand five hundred miles! Having in attendance u pon him while pas sing through these vast districts of savage Africa — districts for the most part wholly unexplored until then—hea --and edb freedmen, r a e E s e d u ha%peans--a cluster of native porters or g o i es one liberated slav es called solitary Wanguanas n ' English companion, Captain Grant, to whose pencil the J ournal of Cap tain Speke's Trav els, as now p ublished b y Messrs. Blackwood, are indebted for a profusion of very clever and every one of them thrice-wel come ill ustra ti ons . The Wanguanas, it should be said, are the roughs or rowdies of the African population. Those selected an d, quitting by Captain Spekeon starting upon his enterprize, numbered, in all, to begin with, seventy.six—that is to say when he s et his face westw ar d s on th e 3d o f October, beganh 1860,efirs to f o pposite the Isl an d o f Z anz ibar tting the coas t o f th e main land immediately i his ion g series of m arc h es in that westerly direction, marches that extended in that direction steadily for five or six hundred miles altogether. Not until that distance from the west had been reached did Capt. Speke turn northwards. Long before then his seventy-five African porters had dwindled down numerically by a succession of desertions.at length at some whereabout the Arrived, ahowever, soma meridian as the Victoria Lake, or pond, o r N'yanza—northwards, the ex plorer then did turn in earnest with his diminished body of attendants, and with Capt. Grout, his one gallant English companion. The little party turned northwards then and there—advancing first of all midway between the oblong lake of Tangan yika and the triangular lake, pond, or N'yanza known from this time forth by the name of our be loved Sovereign. Further northwards on their march the exploring party of adventurers, the two Englishmen and their gang of African porters or Wanguanas, found the path of their journey trending between the range of the Mountains of the Moon and the western borders of the Victoria N'yanza. The latter expanse of inland water may perhaps be the most aptly and the most accurately described,; by the suggestion that an equilateral triangle, almost as irregular in form as the African continent itself, or as the South American continent —and so placed, by the way, that, like each of those two continents, it should have one of its points or angles directed almost due south—should be placed with one of its sides resting al most immediately upon the line of the equator. There, in the northern line of the equilateral triangle of the lake or N'yanza. Victoria, the River Nile, the White Nile, distinctly takes its rise. The waters of the mighty stream runs out of the lake, strictly speaking, it is true, at three points. But two of those three outlets, it may be said, are little better than marshes, or, as the Nile Discoverer himself calls them—rush drains rather than rivers. It is in the easternmost of the three that the Source of the White Nile is really and truly discernible. There, at Ripon Falls, the noble and mysterious current takes its rise. The waters of the Victoria N'yanze, passing through the Napoleon Channel, tumble at those Ripon Falls over a ledge twelve feet in depth, and from four to five hundred feet in breadth, roaming and flashing down in a beautiful cascade, worthy of marking the commencement of that glorious river more than two thousand miles in its seaward course, from the Ripon Falls to the Delta, on the Mediterranean. It is curious to think for a moment of that mighty stream rolling on through those 2,000 miles and upwards, the largest of its three or four tributaries, that is, the Biue Nile of Bruce winding northwards through Abyssinia, but the main stream, the grand trunk of the river, distinguishable first of all as the White Nile, rushing on northwards, ever northwards—sinu ously, serpent-wise, through Nubia, onwards in a direct line through Egypt, marked at either ex tremity by an equilateral triangle ! Here at its source, in the extreme south, the watery triangle of the Victoria N'yanza! Here at its emergence into the Mediterranean, in the extreme north, the rich alluvial trangle of the Delta! To Capt. Speke belongs the glory, as the annals of geography will not tire of reiterating—to him belongs the honour and privilege of having brought to light at length the until now hidden truth as to the source or origin of the gigantic stream of the Nile. His companion will share with him of course in enjoying the credit of this most notable discovery. But as yet Captain Grant has preserved, certainly so far as authorship goes, a profound and unbroken silence as to what ought to be in justice regarded as his due meed of honour as a participater in the discovery of the source of the Nile. His pencil has not remained idle it is true. But his pen has altogether. And in Captain Speke's narrative little—almost as one may say, next to nothing—ie said about him. Detained as Captain Grant was several menthe longer than Captain Speke in Kara gue, and this by reason of his being temporarily crippled by a serious malady in one of his legs he has surely much of interest in his notes or in his recollections that he could tell us. And we look all the more hopefully to his tell ing us a good deal at least, if not all, of what he might, because Captain Speke has left so very much untold that we are most anxious to have had related. The Manners and Customs of the savage tribes through which our travellers passed, we know comparatively nothing of, from this Journal, elaborate and lengthy though it is. The naivete of the poor African race we catch glimpses of, it is true, now and then : as where, in Unyoro, King Kamrasi is dimly groping after knowledge in regard to the Bible ; or as when the reputed sanctity of the water of the Nile is repudiated by Captain Speke's own attendants. " I told my men," he writes, " they ought to shave their heads and bathe in the holy river, the cradle of Moses—the waters of which, sweetened with sugar, men catty all the way from Egypt to Mecca, and sell to the pilgrims." "We don't look on those things," was the reply, " in the same fanciful manner that you do; we are con. tented with all the commonplaces of life, and look for nothing beyond the ;present. If things don't go well, it is God's will; and if they do go well, that is His will also." This little incident occur ring, it should be remarked, at the point where the Explorer first obtains a view of the river to the discovery of whose source he is at the moment as piring—and not merely aspiring, but energeti cally struggling on, through how many hard ships, impediments, vexations, anxieties, and diseouragements ! Here—at that first view of it, he writes, in perhaps the most picturesque passage that could be anywhere found in his Journal — Hero at last I stood on the brink of the Nile ; most beau tiful was the scene—nothing could surpass it I It was the very perfection of the kind of effect aimed at in ahi ghly kept park ; with a magnificent stream from 600 to 700 yards wide, dotted with islets and rocks, the former occu pied by fishermen's huts, the latter by sterns and crocodiles basking in the sun—flowing between fine high grassy banks, with rich trees and plantains in the background, where herds of the nsunnu and hartebeest could be seen grazing, while the hippopotami were snorting in the water, and flori ken and guinea-fowl rising at our feet. Unfortunately, the chief district officer, Mlondo, was from home, but we took possession of his huts --clean, extensive, and tidily kept — facing the river, and felt as if a residence hero would do one good. Although the King of Karagne, by name Ramanika, is about the most attractive of the aboriginal per sonages depicted in the volume, we are tempted to give, by preference, our gallant traveller's delinea tion, thus graphically, of the young Sovereign of Uganda, by name Mtesa : The mighty king was now reported to be sitting on his throne in the state hut of the third tier. I advanced, hat in hand, with my guard of honour following, formed in " open ranks," who in their turn were followed by the nearers carrying the present. I did not walk straight up to him as if to shake hands, but went outside the ranks of a three sided square of squatting Wakungu, all habited in skins, mostly cow skins ; some few of whom had, in addition, leopard-cat skins girt round the waist, the sign of royal blood, Here I was desired to halt and sit in the glaring sun ; so I donned my hat, mounted my umbrella, a phenomenon which set them all a-wondering and laughing, ordered the guards to close ranks, and sat gazing at the novel spectacle. A more theatrical sight I never saw. The king, a good-looking, well-figured, tall young man of 25, was sitting on a red blanket spread upon a square platform of royal grass, encased in tiger grass reeds, scrupulously well dressed in a new mbugu. The hair of his head was cut short, excepting on the top, where it was combed up into a high ridge, running from stem to stern like a cock's comb. On his neck was a very neat ornament—a large ring, of beautifully-worked small beads, forming elegant patterns by their various colours. On one arm was another bead ornament, prettily devised ; and on the other a wooden charm, tied by a string covered with snake skin. On every finger and every toe he had alternate brass and copper rings ; and above the ankles, half way up to the calf, a stocking of very pretty beads. Everything was light, neat, and elegant in its way; not a fault could be found with the taste of his "getting up." For a handkerchief he held a well-folded piece of bark, and a piece of gold-embroidered silk, which he constantly employed to hide his large mouth when laugh ing, or to wipe it after a drink of plantain wine, of which he took constant and copious draughts from neat little gourd cups, administered by his ladies-in-waiting, who were at once his sisters and wives. A white dog, spear, shield, and woman—the Uganda cognisance—were by his side, as also a knot of staff officers, with whom he kept up a brisk conversation on one side; and on the other was a band of Wichwezi, or lady sorcerers, such as I have already described: I was now asked to draw nearer within the hollow square of squatter', where leopard skins were strewed upon the ground, and a large copper kettle-drum, surmounted with brass bells on arching wires, along with two other smaller drums covered with cowrie shells, and beads colour worked into patterns, were placed. I now longed to open conversation, but knew not the language, and no one near me dared speak, or even lift his head from fear of being accused of eyeing the women; so the king and myself sat staring at one another for full an hour—l mute, but he pointing and remarking with those around him on the novelty of my guard and general appearance, and even re quiring to see my hat lifted, the umbrella shut and opened, and the guards face about and show off their red cloaks — for such wonders had never been seen in Uganda. Then, finding the day waning, he sent Maula on an embassy to ask me if I had seen him; and on receiving my reply, "Yes, for full one hour," I was glad to find him rise, spear in hand, lead his dog, and walk unceremoniously away through the enclosure into the fourth tier of huts ; for this being a pure levee day, no business was transacted. The king's gait in retiring was intended to be very ruajestie, but did not succeed in conveying to me that impression. It was the traditional walk of his race, founded on the step of the lion ; but the outward sweep of the legs, intended to represent the stride of the noble beast, appeared to me only to realise a very ludicrous kind of waddle, which made me ask Bombay if anything serious was the matter with the royal person. To the work itself, however, who is there but will turn with the liveliest interest and curiosity ? In a literary point of view it cannot, it is true, but be regarded as marked by very considerable defici encies. The tale it tells is, in the strictest meaning of the words, " plain and unvarnished." The elo quence of Captain Speke—if there be any eloquence at all anywhere discernible in his narrative—is, more literally than Mr. Cobden, " unadorned." He speaks the simplest truth of the matter right out. just as it occurs to him. And he does this so conscientiously that at times he even disdains rot to become tedious. It is a noble achievement, however, that he has to relate, and he relates it with manful simplicity. As for the general appearance and intrinsic value of the work, as a substantive publication, it is everything that could well have been wished for. The publishers have lavished upon it, as it deserved, every possible care as evi denced by a great variety of adornments in the way of maps and illustrations. The volume altogether is a noble addition to any, even the most richly-stored bookshelves, as the Discovery it relates is certainly a most noble addition to the richest stores the world has yet gathered together in the shape of geographical knowledge. 4 It 2 feet 2 feet. 491 501 1331 65 k 6} no} 111 72 Ic4i 43t 106 j 7 i 102 102 3j 2f 3j 1281 1 152! 1031 i 594 90} 90 95i 5 106} 104 i 20} 74i 67} 7 10.5} 41 New Rules for Rifle Practice. The following circular has been issued : " School of Musketry, Hythe, Jan. 13. "The following changes in the system of rifle practice are to take effect from this date, and to be continued in force until further orders : " 1. The number of targets and the dimensions of bull's eyes and centres for the several classes, &c., to be as follows: Dimensions. Classes, &o. No. of Centre Bull's-eye. Targets.Height.Breadth, Height. Breadth From 150 to 300 yards inclusive, or for 3d class 2 4 feet 1 foot 1 foot 6 in. From 400 to to 600 yards inclusive or for 2d class 3 From 600 to 900 yards inclusive, or for let class 4 4 „ 1 foot. File and volley firing Skirmishing 1 .• .. 1,, 2,, "2. Shots hitting the targets to to valued for all classes as follows :—Bull's-eyes, 4 points—centres, 3—outers, 2. All shots hitting the horizontal black litre, in file, volley, and skirmishing practices, to count 4. " 3. The points to be obtained as a qualification to pass into a higher class, and establish a claim for extra pay as marksman,' are to be as follows :—Number of points to be obtained with Enfield rifle, in 3d class to pass into 2d class, 30, with small bore, 40—in 2d class to pass into Ist, Enfield, 30—with small bore, 40—in Ist class to be marksmen, En field, 20, with small bore, 32. " 4. In executing the volley practice a man whose rifle misses fire in the volley is not to be allowed to fire at the target singly, but his round is to be counted as having been expended. "5. The order of merit regulating the issue of extra pay to men who become marksmen to be determined by the greatest number of points obtained in shooting in the Ist and 2d classes—i. e., 40 rounds. "6. The best shot of the battalion will be that man who, having obtained in the Ist class upwards of 20 points with the Enfield rifle, or 32 points with the small bore, scores the highest number of points in the Ist and 2d classes—i.e., 40 rounds, and is in the first class judging distance at the final classification." Alarming Occurrence at the Midland Railway Works, Yesterday morning, a few minutes after 10 o'clock, an accident of a most alarming and serious character, involv ing the immediate death of six valuable horses, the destruc eon of a considerable amount of property, and the narrow escape of a number of workmen, took place at the stupen dous works and excavations now progressing for stores and Warehouses connected with the goods depot of the Midland Railway at Agar Town. That portion of the works where this catastrophe took place is abutting on the excavations which are being made for a coffer dam and docks to be constructed under stores which are to be erected for Messrs Allsopp and Co. and Messrs. Bass and Co., the pale ale brewers of Burton-on- Trent. This excavation is situate between the western side of the Regent's-canal and the King's-road, Camden Town, and some idea may be formed of the magnitude of the work, when it is stated that the entire contract will reach little short of £300,000. On the south-western side of the excava tion there was, up to yesterday morning, existing a series of exceedingly large arches forming the viaduct by which means the old road from the King's road to the upper part of Agar Town was carried up to the level of the iron bridge over the canal, constructed some 10 or 12 years since by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners on coming into possession of that portion of the Agar estate. These arches and the bridge were the property of the Midland Company, but by agree ment with Mr. W. Winn, contractor for the earthworks for the stores, etc., he was permitted to occupy them as stabling for the horses. The building contractors were Messrs. Smith and Co., of Leicester, who had sublet their contract for pull ing down these arches, &c., to Mr. Lawrence, a builder, of Hackney. Cracks had been observed in the arches for some time, but it is stated not to such an extent as to cause danger to be apprehended. Mr. Winn employed in his excavation 48 horses and somewhere about 100 men, but at the time of the occurrence the whole of the horses were out at work, except ing 10, which, in consequence of the wetness of the morn ing, were not employed, but were left in the stabling under the arches. The operation of commencing to pull down the arches it appears was begun by Mr. Lawrence's men on Tuesday morning at the third, or smaller of the three arches, in which there were no horses, and were pursuing their labours, at the time specified, yesterday morning, when the cracking of the brickwork gave intimation that something was wrong, and the men at once succeeded in makii3g their escape, but had scarcely done so when the whole of the arches gave way with a tremendous crash, crushing the poor horses beneath t) death by their ponderous weight, being eight or nine bricks thick. The consternation at the moment, and for some time after the occurrence, was very great, and this was heightened by an extensively circulated rumour that several of Mr. Winn's workmen were missing, and were also buried in the ruins, and that some had been known to be in the stabling at the time. In order to allay anxiety upon this point Mr Winn immediately had a call of his employees, and found they were all sate. A boy named White was knocked down by some of the falling brickwork, but was only slightly contused. As soon as the confusion had somewhat subsided, the navvies were set to work to rescue the horses which might have escaped injury, and singular to relate, out of the 10 poor anima's four were rescued apparently unhurt, but six were dug out in the course of the afternoon dead. Three of these had cost not long since 55 guineas each, and the other three were valued at about £3O each. As the arches were the property of the Midland Company a telegram was im mediately forwarded to Mr. Crossley, the engineer of the Midland Company, at Derby, and from subsequent investi gation it has been ascertained that the workmen were abso lutely in the employ of the building contractors, Messrs. Smith, but were working under Mr. Lawrence's superin tendence ; that requiring the bricks as rapidly as possible for their new works the men, instead of picking out the work by piecemeal, had actually removed the key ring of the arch on which they commenced, which, on giving way, caused the other etches to follow. The news of the occurrence spread rapidly with plenty of exaggerations throughout the district, and during the after noon hundreds of persons congregated around the scene of the disaster, and would not believe but that there were human beings as well as horses buried in the ruins, but which we are happy to state is not the fact. A question will arise as to who is responsible for the lose sustained, the Midland Company, the building contractor, or Mr. Winn, the contractor for t he earthworks. In the first place the arches were known to be cracked months ago, when Mr. Win, Jay, the contractor, occupied them as stabling ; secondly, whether the building contractor had any right to commence the work of demolition without giving notice and seeing that the horses of the earthworks contractor were re - moved—or whether he had any business to move them at all, it being stated to be usual, unless specially agreed to the contrary, that all obstructions in excavating become the pro perty of the excavating contractor. The average depth of the excavation for the dock, which is to be supplied with water from tho Regent's Canal, was 30 feet. From 70,000 • to 80,000 cubic yards of earth had been dug out, and there is about a similar quantity to be removed—so that this per ' tien of the work may be said to be half finished. of ANOTHER NEW STREET IN SOUTRWARK.—A new street, extending from Crucifix-lane, Bermond sey-street, to the east end of St. Thomas-street, High-street, Southwark, is in the cortrso of formation. The northern side of the street is bounded by the wall that encloses the termi nus at London-bridge and the new south line of the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway. Traffic to the Lower road, Deptford, and places to which it leads, by taking the new route, will avoid the overcrowded thoroughfares of Tooley-street and Dockhead, as the street will pass along Crucifix. lane, pass St. John's Church, Horselydown, into FrLeschool 'street, and thence to the Lower-road. Oue-half of the main sewer has been constructed, the pavement of the carriage and footways laid down, and the side arches con structed. The works of the remainder are far advanced, and it i is expected that the street will be open ed early in March. SECOND► EDITIO bUN OFFICE, HALF-PAST 4 O'CLOCK. HAMBURG. HAMBURG, Jan. 20.—Duke Charles of Glunks burg, eldest brother of King Christian, has arrived here from the Chateau of Louiserland, in Schles wig. He is said to have left the country after having refused to take the oath of allegiance to his brother. The Hamburg News announces that a brigade- of Danish infantry has been sent from Schleswig to Flensburg, as well as the depot battalions of other brigades. The Schleswig-Holsteia regiments will be divided in such a way among the Danish corps, that there will be only one German to four Daneii. THIRD EDITION SUN OFFICE, SEVEN O'CLOCK. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.--This Day TATTERSALLS'.-THIS EVENING. CHESTER CUP. 20 to lon the field (offered) THE DERBY. 13 to 1 agst Paris (taken) 100 to 6 agst Forager (taken) 000 to 55 agst Coast Guard (taken) 30 to 1 agst Birch Broom (taken) 33 to 1 agst General Peel (taken) 40 to 1 agst Idler (taken) 50 to 1 agst Horse Marine (taken) Bank of England Return,.--This Evening. An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 20th day of Jan., 1564: ISSUE DEPORTMENT. ()tea issued ......X26.955,490, Government Debt .£11,015,1C0 Other Securities 3.634,900 Gold Coin & Bullion 12,305,490 Silver Bullion .... £26,935,4901 X26,955,g90 lIANKING D. PARTMENT. oprietors' Capi tal £14.553.000 ltest i'ublic Deposits (in cluding Exche quer, Savings' Banks, Commis missioners of Na tional Debt, and Dividend Ac counts) 5,689,074 Other Deposits 13,87t1,877 Seven Day and other Bills 618,599 Government Seen- rities (including Dead Weigh tAn- nuity) V £11,077,189 Other Securities 20.271,671 Notes Gold and Silver 668,619 Coln X 38,145,774 AI. . X 39, 05.77 i .RSIIALL, Chief Cabaier. Jan. 21, 1864. Private Bills in the House of Commons, THIS DAY. This morning Mr. Smith disposed of the following un opposed bills, which will of course come before Parlia-• ment for their first reading :—Hammersmith and City Railway (Extension, &c.), Holborn Valley Im provement, Chichester and Midhurst Railway (No.. 3), Great Northern and Victoria Station Railway, East and West Junction Railway, Hampstead, Midland, North Western, and Charing-cross Junc tion Railway, West Yorkshire Railway, Watford and Edgware Junction Railway, Victoria Station and Thames Embankment Railway. PETITION ADJOURNED—BeIfast Water Works (cam:. missioners). PETITION Posrr ONED—Midland Railway (new lines and additional powers). BILLS OrrosED—Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway (extension to Charing-cross). (BEFORE MR. FRERE.) The following unopposed bills were disposed of :—Poole, 3ournemouth, and Wimbourne ; Scottish Central R ai lway (stations), Brading Harbour (Isle of Wi g ht ),entnor Harbour Railway, &0., Scottish North-Eastern and Scot tish Central Railway, Carnarvon and Llanberis Newcastle-under-Lyne Canal, and North Staffordshire Railway, London Low Level Railway. PETITIONS ADJOURNND —Glasgow (City) Union Rail way, Shrewsbury and Potteries Railway, Gloucestershire , and Wiltshire Railway. PETITIONS POSTPONED —Waltharastow, Clapton, and City Railway, North Staffordshire Railway (New Works), EXTRAORDINARY SWINDLE, An old man, named John Dolan, the keeper of a provision shop in the village of Primatestowa, county of Meath, has been made the victim of a most extrordinary hoax, by which he has lost a sum of £llO, all the cash he possessed in the world. A man, who gave his name as Morgan, and who was known in the rural districts as a watchmaker, had for some eight, months past been carrying messages between Dolan, who had the reputation of being wealthy, and a young woman styling herself Miss Reilly, who, Morgan stated, lived at Donore, where she had eight or ten acres of land, which she was about to sell, and reside with an aunt at Ardee, in the county of Louth. About six weeks ago Morgan informed the old man that Mies Reilly had sold the farm, for which she had received £2OO, and had already gone to Ardee, after depositing the money in the bank; that she wanted a steady, staid man, and having heard that he (Dolan) was a good dealer, she believed they would act a wise part in putting their money and themselves together, and opening a shop in Ardee. On Tuesday week Mor gan again paid Dolan a visit, and brought him the happy tidings that Miss Reilly had consented to meet him next day at Drogheda, when all matters connected with the marriage were to be arranged. Miss Reilly had also requested that Dolan should bring ell his money with him on the occasion. On Wednesday morning the old man harnessed the horse, and proceeded with Morgan on the car to Drogheda, taking with him £llO and two days' provender for the horse. At Drogheda they met Miss Reilly, in company of a young man who was understood to be a relative, and who on a previous occasion bad paid a visit to Dolan at Primatestown. The meeting appeared to be a very joyous one, at least on the part of Dolan, as the female was a bouncing and rather handsome girl of 20 years of age. It would appear that several half pints of whisky were consumed in the course of a few hours conversation ; and, so fascinated had old Dolan be come with Miss Reilly's appearance and agreeable conversation, that he took out all the cash, in notes and gold, threw it into her lap, and desired her to take care of it. Some time afterwards Dolan pro ceeded to prepare the horse and car for the journey to Ardee; but when he returned he found that the party had decamped except Morgan, who seemed to commiserate Dalan's position very much, and assisted him in making search for them about the place. Giving up all hopes of tracing the young the Reilly previously o r her aunt told cou ple, he returned to his home, and gave informa tion of the circumstances to the constabulary. No suchat Ardee,per son and as Miss etales all h burned out to be fabrications.— Freeman's owldastokDnOwlann Journal. SHIPPING—This Day. LONDON, Jan. 21.—wind this day at noon—South- Westerly; moderate breeze, and fine weather. On MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday Morning. Arrived, Jan. 20—John Romilly, from Marseilles— Halcyon, from Terceira—American Eagle, from New York —Furet, from Gravelines—Lavonia, from Palermo—Regina, from Buenos Ayres—Sir John Moore, from Sydney— Abeona, from Ancona—Baronet's Family, from Bombay._ Clarissa, Andromeda, and Bell Adventure, from St. Mi chael's—Surprise, Demetrius, Elizabeth, and Reward, from Guernsey—Recovery, from Gijon—Maynards, from Algoa Bay—Zeeblong, from Genoa—Jantje Berg, and Rosalee, from Taganrog—Sarah Williams, from Zante—Lizzie Southard, from New York—Sandebah, from Demerara— Queen of the Clyde, from CalcuttaDElL. , Thursday Morning. Passed—Alice Mary, from London, for Singapore, A HINT FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF CRINOLINE. —One of the Kings of Spain had the good taste to be very much annoyed at the extravagant length of the trains worn by the ladies of his Court. He tried all means to curtail the nuisance, but his efforts were as vain as King James's "Counterblast against Tobacco." At last he o rdered his chamberlain or corresponding officer CO decree that while trains of any length might bo wornbyea::. woman, all trains beyond a cert ain length shou ld h ed garded as the badge of courttz ins. The order xecut itself. At once all the ladies of the Court, some of whom were said to be well qualified for an exhtera 11, cut short their trailing robes, and the hallsaant it.waii:reosence-chana ber became practicable fur the in ; I LONDON. STREET THE WHOLE SUEJECT 0 1 IMPROVEMENT, it is sai d , wil l come b e f o re the House of Commons this Session, and we h o pe With it the cutting u p I of the intern als . of the Dl e tropo i r s. i 1% 20. eop°l°' er SSE Paid, 100 lof. 9 1$ 7} i 103 i 105}